Sound Off: Jan. 22

NRA: You friend the NRA, on behalf of the gun manufacturers, is in there to see that everybody can obtain firearms, and I wonder if that includes the crazies and the felons?

LAS CRUCES: Sixty people in the city Economic Development Department. We need economic development just to support this massive, incompetent city government that's sitting on our shoulders and sucking our tax money.

CAMPOS COLUMN: Great commentary by Sen. Pete Compos on our underfunded judiciary system, and of course Susana is not going to do that because the more people she can incarcerate the more goes for her pay-for-play prisons. Privatization doesn’t work, but of course that is the Republican way.

PRESIDENCY: For eight years the right wing denied Obama's presidency and his birth. Now with Donald Trump their mantra is "He won. Get over it." I don't think so.

EPE: El Paso Electric is always hiking up the rates, so they should give everybody who got affected with the power outage a 10 percent discount. They said in the paper 14,000 customers, it was more like a 140,000, the lights were off all over town.

LAS CRUCES: What is an economic development department? All that is going to be is a waste of money. The way you get economic development in this state and this city, is you invite people to come in, build their businesses and give them a tax break.

NEW MEXICO: Martinez claims she does not want to raise taxes on hard-working New Mexicans, but she is cutting services to hard working New Mexicans and continuing the obscene tax breaks to the trillion dollar profit oil companies. The 32 other Republican-run states are facing the same problem. Duh! Republican economics don't work

CARTOON: Your political cartoons in the 18th's paper showing Putin does nothing but divide this country, this city and people. If this is the best quality that you can get out of this supposed drawer, don't put anything in at all.

WHISTLEBLOWING: I have a little heads up for the people of Las Cruces. How do you go around the mayor and the politicians when it comes to cops acting bad and you got proof of it and they don't do nothing about it? Take your recording to the Department of Public Safety in Albuquerque and file a complaint with them, they investigate it and yank their license. That's how you take them down.

USA: Why does the news media keep saying transition of power when it should be transition of leadership?

KUDOS: I would like to compliment Jesus Ontiveros. He is the grave keeper that takes care of the St. Genevieve's Church graveyard on Espina. The man does a wonderful job, and Father Rogelio, he needs a raise. I have observed this gentleman every day when I walk my dogs and he meticulously uses his backhoe and physically removes headstones in a very delicate nature. He is a really nice guy. The grounds are amazing.

2016: I'd like to say something about all the boycotts the Democrats are performing. I think it's time the Democrats look at the election closer. It wasn't the Russians; it wasn't the FBI. The election was Hillary Clinton's for the taking and she lost it.

BIAD COLUMN: Why Mr. Biad would look to the Census for labor statics, since they only collect economic data every five years, unlike the Bureau of Labor Statics which collects in real time, is probably because the number employed in hospitality has gone up since the wage adjustment.